Yes, there are a ton of people willing to help out. Your classmates are great resources of "So how do you do this? or What did you end up getting for this one?" stuff. Depending on teh size of the school, the professors are usually more than willing to help. Smaller colleges like the one I attended, they pretty much all had an open door policy, if you saw them in their office, it was probably ok to come in and ask them some questions if you had any. I don't know about larger universities really, but I know they have aids.
Good luck, it's gonna be a lot of hard work, but it'll pay off in the end.